"There are voices crying what must be done,……" — Alan Paton
"There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that."
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Alan Paton
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63 Quotes by Alan Paton
Alan Paton has 63 quotes on this site.
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To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
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Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
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What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and…
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For who can stop the heart from breaking?
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And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from…
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There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in…
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it…
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
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One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
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All roads lead to Johannesburg.
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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can…
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More Counsel Quotes
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one of 337 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but…
— Francis Bacon
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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new…
— Francis Bacon
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there…
— Francis Bacon
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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
— Walter Benjamin
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The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful…
— Elizabeth Blackwell
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Search well and be wise, nor believe that self-willed pride will ever be better than good counsel.
— Aeschylus
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It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
— Aeschylus
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
— Harry Browne
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